Publisher / Editor Brian Harrod provides hyper local news for Yonkers, NY, that is also continually updated from thousands of sources on the Roundup Newswires Network
A GoFundMe page has been set up for Janaya Jones Boone, the 38-year-old woman found stabbed to death at the Regency Inn on Dec. 12. She was born and raised in Yonkers, New York, but had lived in Fort Wayne for 15 years.
... came home and he started having breathing issues -- coughing, wheezing -- which he never had before," said Johnson. Yonkers school officials are scrambling to figure out where to put students of Paideia School 15 after mold tests came back positive. ...
... came to her 11:30 a.m. story hour Aug. 21, 2018, at Rahway Public Library. South Salem, New York: Angel Velasquez of Yonkers, New York, reads to children as drag queen persona Angel Elektra. Velasquez read July 14, 2018, to participants of Drag ...
... sight. Depending on several variables, including happenstance, a child might be sent to a 33-acre youth shelter in Yonkers, N.Y., that features picnic tables, sports fields and even an outdoor pool. "Like summer camp," said Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., ...
... Especially after those children were scattered to different parts of the country, including both the Bronx and Yonkers. Two organizations Bronx borough president Ruben Diaz Jr., believes is housing these children are Catholic Guardian Services and ...
... GA 30310 About the Artist Artist InUs a.k.a Muhammad Suber Mr. Suber is an accomplished artist, originally from Yonkers, New York. He began sketching at about 4 years old. Predominantly self-taught, he started out using colored pencils, pens and ...
A New Jersey Easter bunny owned by the same company that supplies the Cross County Shopping Center's bunny was not as hippity-hoppity as usual this week. A local mom in a group waiting in line at the Willowbrook Mall with her children shared the incident on Facebook, igniting a social media clash between people who were outraged and others who defended the teen in the bunny suit.
... be distributed to the Youth Court Program in New Rochelle, the L.I.F.T. Program in Peekskill, WJCS Center Lane in Yonkers and the Step Up Boys, Clubman Higher Aims and Healthy and Fit for Life Programs in White Plains. "These programs are necessary ...
Kids can get into the Halloween spirit a little early with a visit to the Cross County Shopping Center's Halloween Spooktacular on Saturday, Oct. 21. The shopping center has planned a day full of fun events giving children and Halloween-loving adults a chance to dress up early and take part in trick-or-treating, arts and crafts, a storytime, dancing, and lots more beginning at 10 a.m. and running through 3:30 p.m. Trick-or-Treating from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. and again from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
The elementary school teacher was recently honored by the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free School District for her 25 years of service. Troop, who lives in Yonkers, currently teaches 4th grade at Hillside Elementary School.
... for the environment. Respecting differences between people. Can those values be taught in five days? The Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture believes so. The society held its first ever one-week day camp last week with the goal of teaching ...
... with young people who do not live in the immediate area, Nunez said. Many come from the South Bronx, East Bronx, and Yonkers. As long as they can get to
... Kilpatrick understands better than most. Kilpatrick's father - Sean Sr. - was imprisoned years ago. So the Nets' Yonkers-bred shooting guard not only can sympathize with the kids he spoke with recently, but empathize. "I come from a situation where ...
... of districts reported unpaid meal debt at the end of the 2012-2013 school year, according to The Atlantic . In Yonkers, N.Y., the tab for unpaid school meals for the 2015-2016 school year hit $809,000. Ninety-four students had bills higher than ...
The birth of two baby cows, two goats and two sheep are planned for 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Yonkers To honor the blessed event, Stew's Little Farms is hosting a celebration that includes snacks, balloons, and special appearances by Clover the Cow, Daphne Duck and Cynthia Chick. In anticipation of the opening, kids ages four to 10 are invited to enter the "Name Our Babies" contest.
... Nonprofit partners include the volunteer firefighters in Ashburn, VA, public libraries in Littleton, CO and Yonkers, NY, animal welfare groups like Austin Pets Alive! and groups that serve children in need such as Make-A-Wish Foundation chapters, ...
The fundraiser at Yonkers Brewery was part of a larger event that kicks off in April called "Hogs4Hope" which raises money to help kids with cancer. "Hogs4Hope" is a motorcycle benefit event to raise awareness and funding for the Ronald McDonald House of New York City and the Aidan Jack Seeger Foundation," says Lt.
Kids of all ages flocked to Pelton Park in Yonkers Monday to savor what was left of the unseasonably warm weather. At the end of their three-day weekend, children were playing basketball, soccer and baseball in gym shorts and T-shirts.
... women eschew the word. Several years ago, on a Sabbath morning, I was walking from synagogue to my home in Yonkers, New York, when I bumped into neighbors - an Orthodox rabbi and his wife. The couple, in their 70s, are American-born, but they know ...
... women eschew the word. Several years ago, on a Sabbath morning, I was walking from synagogue to my home in Yonkers, New York, when I bumped into neighbors - an Orthodox rabbi and his wife. The couple, in their 70s, are American-born, but they know ...
Santa made a stop in Yonkers Monday to give gifts to kids with developmental disabilities. Santa and his elves teamed up with Empress Emergency Medical Santa and his elves teamed up with Empress Emergency Medical Service to bring nearly 150 presents to Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center.
The Armory Foundation is developing the Yonkers Sports and Convention Center, a 5-6,000 seat, 100,000 square foot track and field arena with a 20,000 square foot educational center for Yonkers student, along with a store and a small restaurant at 29 Wells Avenue, above the Kawasaki rail car building near the Yonkers train station. The foundation is hoping to open the first phase of the $25 million project in spring 2018.
For the past 50 years Danny Dentaroli and his business County Cycle has been a fixture on McLean Avenue in Yonkers. A second-generation bicycle shop owner, the 81-year-old Dentaroli is one of the those people who loves to know what's happening in the neighborhood along with how people are doing, how their families are doing and even how their grandchildren are doing.
... with 10 children on his morning route from New Rochelle to the Windward Upper School. The children were located in Yonkers and taken to the school without harm. The last child board the morning bus at 7:45 a.m. The children were not recovered from ...